Niconico Video Search

Search Japan Niconico (nicovideo) videos. Built for analysts, quants, fintech builders and AI agents.

📊 Sample Output

content_id	title	view_count	comment_count	posted_at	thumbnail_url
sm8628149	【東方】Bad Apple!! ＰＶ【影絵】	31434954	5594698	2009-10-27T03:13:22+09:00	https://nicovideo.cdn.nimg.jp/thumbnails/8628149/8628149
sm9	新・豪血寺一族 -煩悩解放 - レッツゴー！陰陽師	23085313	5693679	2007-03-06T00:33:00+09:00	https://nicovideo.cdn.nimg.jp/thumbnails/9/9
sm22954889	幕末志士達のスマブラ６４実況プレイ	17728037	276156	2014-02-23T21:35:51+09:00	https://nicovideo.cdn.nimg.jp/thumbnails/22954889/22954889
sm27965309	DECO*27 - ゴーストルール feat. 初音ミク	12852554	191401	2016-01-08T20:00:00+09:00	https://nicovideo.cdn.nimg.jp/thumbnails/27965309/27965309
sm6188097	【マリオ64実況】 奴が来る 伍【幕末志士】	11888039	705013	2009-02-18T08:42:06+09:00	https://nicovideo.cdn.nimg.jp/thumbnails/6188097/6188097
sm7552074	【マリオ64実況】 奴が来る 六【幕末志士】	9976260	460196	2009-07-06T07:52:30+09:00	https://nicovideo.cdn.nimg.jp/thumbnails/7552074/7552074

Real rows from run VhjfDSpBbB64eighJ on build 0.0.13 (2026-09-25), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
mode	string (search, ranking)	"search"	search = find videos by keyword. ranking = return Japan's most-viewed videos (optionally scoped to a query/genre keyword).
query	string	"ゲーム"	Keyword to search on Niconico (Japanese or English). Required for search mode; optional for ranking mode (leave blank for the overall top videos).
sort	string (views, recent, comments, mylist, likes, length)	"views"	Sort order for search mode. Ranking mode always sorts by views.
maxItems	integer	30	Hard cap on the number of videos returned.
notionConnector	string		Optional. Connect your Notion workspace and the results are also written as a Notion page in the same run — the Actor never sees your Notion credentials. Authorize a Notion MCP co…
notionParentId	string		Optional. The Notion page ID to create the page under. If blank, Notion creates a private page in your workspace.
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy": true}	Optional Apify proxy configuration. The Snapshot API is open, but a proxy helps avoid rate limits on large runs.
supabaseConnector	string		Optional. Connect your own Supabase project and the results are also inserted into a table in the same run — the Actor never sees your Supabase credentials. Authorize a write-scop…
supabaseTable	string	"nexgendata_leads"	Target table in the public schema (created if missing, with id, a jsonb data column, and a scraped_at timestamp). Default: nexgendata_leads.
supabaseProjectId	string		Your Supabase project reference (e.g. abcdefghijklmnop). Required unless your connector URL is already project-scoped. Find it in your project URL: supabase.com/dashboard/project/…
deliveryDedup	boolean	true	When on (default), records already delivered in a previous run are not delivered again to the same destination — so scheduled runs only push new items. Turn off to deliver every r…

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run VhjfDSpBbB64eighJ (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "content_id": "sm8628149",
  "title": "【東方】Bad Apple!!　ＰＶ【影絵】",
  "description": "例の元ネタ様(nm3601701)を影絵風にしてみました。　イメージや構図は先人様方からお借りした部分が多々あります。　おんせんは、致命的な理由（服が無いと誰だか分からなくなる）により断念しました・・・面白いと感じて頂ければ幸いでございます。<br />ステマ：Let’s貢献! watch/1398430036",
  "view_count": 31434954,
  "comment_count": 5594698,
  "mylist_count": 674216,
  "like_count": 39738,
  "length_seconds": 219,
  "posted_at": "2009-10-27T03:13:22+09:00",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://nicovideo.cdn.nimg.jp/thumbnails/8628149/8628149",
  "user_id": 10731211,
  "tags": [
    "東方",
    "Bad_Apple!!",
    "影絵",
    "【東方】Bad_Apple!!_PV【影絵】",
    "Bad_Apple!!_feat._nomico",
    "すべての元凶→nm3601701",
    "3000万再生",
    "音楽",
    "…"
  ],
  "video_url": "https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm8628149",
  "query": "ゲーム",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-25T00:03:15.186455Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Video record (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.03	Charged per record extracted into your dataset.

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.03 = $3.00 plus the start fee.

🔗 Related Actors

More from the NexGenData Korea & Japan family:

• Korea Upbit & Bithumb Crypto — 김치프리미엄 API
• KOSPI Korea Stock Screener — 한국 주식 Data API
• Naver Trends News — Korea News Monitoring API
• Pixiv Tracker
• PR TIMES Scraper — Japan Press Releases · プレスリリース API
• TSE Japan Stock Screener — 日本株 Nikkei Data API

17 more in this family on the NexGenData Store page.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per video (15 fields):

• content_id — Niconico content id (e.g. sm15630734)
• title — Title
• view_count — View count
• comment_count — Comment count
• mylist_count / like_count — My-list and like counts
• posted_at — Upload timestamp (ISO 8601, JST offset)
• video_url — Watch URL
• length_seconds — Duration in seconds
• tags, user_id, thumbnail_url, description

Pricing: $0.03 per item (Pay-Per-Event) — about 33 items per $1. Actor start is charged separately by the platform at $0.005 per GB of run memory.

Rows are charged only when they are delivered. If the Snapshot API matches nothing, the run succeeds with 0 rows and a message; if the API cannot be reached, the run fails loudly rather than returning an empty dataset.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured JSON built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull Japan Niconico (nicovideo) video search on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

Search Niconico for videos on a keyword and return view counts.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

⏰ Run on a schedule

This is a monitoring play — schedule a recurring pull:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "query": "ゲーム",
  "sort": "views",
  "maxItems": 50
}

日本語について

この Actor は日本のニコニコ動画の動画検索（タイトル、再生数、投稿日）をクリーンな JSON で提供します。アナリスト、クオンツ、フィンテック開発者、AI エージェント向けに設計されています。「アイテム」ごとに課金され（1ドルあたり約 33 件）、定期実行に対応しているため、ニコニコ動画の検索を毎日・毎週自動で取得できます。

🔗 Related Japan actors

China data suite: EDINET Filings, TDnet Disclosures, JPX Short Selling, Houjin Registry

Cross-market hubs: APAC Disclosure Monitor, APAC IPO Calendar Sweep

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Data from public Japanese market and government sources.